NARU seminars
2011
January
13th January: Scott Cairney - ' Sleep and memory processing'
20th January: Mark Drakesmith - 'Resolving volume conduction artefacts when reconstructing coherent networks from EEG (and MEG)'
27th January: Rebecca Butler - ' Changes in White Matter Connectivity in Chronic Stroke Aphasia'
February
3rd February: Sarah Fox - ' Extending and evaluating conversation-focused therapy: Optimizing the ability of couples where one partner has aphasia to cope with conversation.'
10th February: Solomon Nte - 'Towards a Concept of Representational Economy: Can Parallel Distributed Processing Account for the Effectiveness of Multimodal Item Presentation in Aphasia Rehabilitation Therapy?'
17th February: Dr Christopher Butler, Academic Clinical Lecturer, Dept of Clinical Neurology at the University of Oxford - 'The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia'.
24th February: Jennifer Thomson - 'Assessing the benefits of multimodal rehabilitation in aphasia'.
March
3rd March: Sandra Wielaert - '' Re-thinking executive functions in aphasia: what can conversations contribute?'
17th March: Erdem Pulcu - 'Social and Moral Emotions in Major Depressive Disorders'
24th March: Marcella Carragher -'Improving the conversations of people with non-fluent aphasia: evaluating a combination of impairment-focused therapy and interaction-focused therapy'.
April
14th April: James Cousins - 'The role of post-learning reactivation in memory consolidation'
Easter Break
28th April: Nora Hennies - 'Timecourse, functional anatomy an role of sleep in the formation of semantic memory'.
May
5th May: Rebecca Power
12th May: tbc
19th May: tbc
26th May: Rebecca Jackson
Past Seminars 2010
9th September: Jackie Kindell, Therapy Manager/Speech and Language Therapist at the Penine Care NHS Foundation Trust - Stockport Older People's Mental Health Service. Presentation title: 'Semantic Dementia: How are conversation difficulties managed in everyday settings? '
7th October: Lauren Cloutman - 'Tractographic Functional Parcellation of the Left Inferior Parietal Cortex'
14th October: Ya-ning Chan - 'Emergent length effects in a parallel reading model'
28th October: Dr Karen Sage
4th November: Ajay Halai - ' Exploring the temporal and spatial characteristics of speech comprehension using EEG'
11th November: Holly Robson - 'Impaired acoustic analysis drives the comprehension deficit in Wernicke's aphasia: Preliminary psychoacoustic evidence'
18th November: Dr Alex Leff, Senior Lecturer at UCL and Consultant Neurologist at the Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Presentation title: ' The functional architecture of auditory processing in patients with Wernicke's aphasia'
25th November: Gemma Evans - 'Why is a word a word? Investigating interactive processing within the word recognition network'
2nd December: Dr Christopher Butler, Academic Clinical Lecturer at the Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford. Rescheduled due to adverse weather conditions.
9th December: Taiji Ueno - 'Human brains speak with forked tongue: A formal implementation of a dorsal-ventral dual-pathway language model'